Quotes About Insight

I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.

Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...

Man kann den Wald nicht vor Baümen sehen.

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know.

The habit of knowledge is not human but devine.

Meras creencias lo que el más acreditado conoce y custodia

No entienden los más las cosas con las que se topan, ni pese haberlas aprendido las conocen, pero a ellos se lo parece

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

Non troverai mai la verità se non sei disposto ad accettare anche quello che non ti aspetti.

Çok ÅŸey bilmek kavramay? öÄŸretmez.

What is not yet known those blinded by bad faith can never learn.

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, remarked: "One meets with many men who have been fine students, and have stood high in their classes, who have great knowledge of medicine but very little wisdom in application. They have mastered the science, and have failed in the understanding of the human being.

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.